Japan Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant blog
Tracking Fukushima news from day 1 : | Now one of the world's largest Public Available Repositories of the Chronology of the Daiichi Nuclear ongoing Disaster.
This entire site and content is 100% copyright (for commercial replication), please use the form to submit application for re-use. This site is 100% Educational and all licences in relation to reporting are attended to.

Monday, 14 September 2015

«The World Health Organisation (WHO) is failing
in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of
radioactive contamination.»

The Vigil is held in front of the World Health
Organisation (WHO) headquarters. It has been maintained every
working day since the 26th April 2007 to remind this United Nations
body of its duties as defined in its constitution.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, whose mandate is the
promotion of everything nuclear, has – for the last 55 years –
prevented the WHO from carrying out its public health mandate in a
world ever more exposed to the lethal effects of ionizing radiation.
For 55 years, as of May 29, 2014, the World Health Organization
(WHO) has been under the heel of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) in matters regarding ionizing radiation and health. The
IAEA, whose mandate is the promotion of everything nuclear, has thus
prevented the WHO from carrying out its public health mandate in a
world more and more exposed to the lethal effects of ionizing
radiation.

Since April 26, 2007, the Hippocratic Vigil has been held outside
the WHO headquarters in Geneva, which now makes a total of 436 weeks
without interruption. The vigil consists of a silent presence that
aims to remind the World Health Organization of its obligations as
set out in its constitution. We have added the name of Hippocrates to
our description because of the ethical rules he instituted for health
practitioners. As far as the protection of the health of people
affected by the consequences of the nuclear industry is concerned,
the World Health Organization ignores these rules. The Vigil takes
place outside the WHO headquarters in Geneva every working day from
8:00 am to 6:00 pm

♦

~

We believe it is important to address ourselves to those who are
partly responsible for deciding WHO policy. It is for this reason that,
on 9th November 2012, we began a Vigil outside the Ministry of Health in
Paris. The Ministers of Health are the representatives of the member
countries of WHO, and they are involved in deciding the policies and
actions that this institution pursues in the area of radioprotection. We
will maintain this silent and peaceful vigil every Friday from 9am to
5pm outside the Ministry of Health in Paris, until France takes the
necessary steps to ensure that WHO fulfils its mission to protect the
population from radioactive pollution, and that a programme of
independent research is put in place on a national and / or European
level, on the theme of “Health and nuclear power”.